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County Landowners Can Expect Ag Values to Increase
County opens annual bids at Jan. 17 meeting
By Curt Nettinga
Valuation of crop and no-crop ag land will likely increase in 2012, as the county continues the implementation of productivity valuation, according to Director of Equalization Terri Halls from the Assessor’s office.
She is recommending that crop soil values be increased 10 percent with a 5.3 percent increase to non-crop soil values. Halls noted that values of ag buildings or houses on ag land will not increase.
She said that it is her intent to not change non-ag values in the county, with the exception of the City of Edgemont, which she intends to lower by three percent, to bring it back to the median.
Democracy: Representative Government Requires Candidates: Will You Serve?
City and School Election in April
For City Council: there is one position open in Ward I and Ward II and two positions available for Ward III. These are the positions of Barb Bryan, Barb Strosewski, Carl Shaw, and Nate Cortney.
Barb Strosewski was elected to the council last year to fill a one year term vacated by Clyde Gullickson from Ward I when Gullickson ran for Mayor. Carl Shaw has served as a Ward II councilman for many years. Barb Bryan is completing her first term of office. Nate Cortney resigned this month.
Barb Strosewski and Barb Bryan have stated they will seek re-election in their wards. Carl Shaw is undecided. No other candidates have announced their intentions at this time.
The school board positions of Susan Humiston and Gary Darrow are expiring. Both Humiston and Darrow have stated they will run for re-election.
City and County candidates will be elected at the joint election to be held April 8.
City May Dissolve Park & Rec Board
Park & Rec Board
Ordinance Committee Chair Barb Bryan reported that “after extensive research the committee has come to a decision; a motion to dissolve the park and rec. board will be on the next city council agenda.” Tribune editor Anne Cassens asked what the reasoning was for this recommendation. Bryan stated, “I don’t think I have to discuss it till next meeting,” but Cassens persisted, stating, “We need to know why this is recommended so we as the public can appropriately respond to it.” Bryan then referred the question to attorney Carole Boos who explained that the committee does not want to give the Park & Rec Board the authority that state law now gives them, so they were recommending the board be dissolved.
Due to changes in state law which occurred in the early 1990’s, the city’s ordinance in regard to the Park and Rec board is needing to be brought up to date and into compliance with the state law.
The railyard tunnel to Cottonwood
Utility Foreman Les Haines reported that some discussion has been happening again about the walking tunnel located under the railroad yards at the location of G Street. The city had received a letter of concern from Bessie Bell regarding the deplorable condition of the tunnel. There is missing lighting, and mud and rocks in the bottom of the tunnel. Hanes explained that the tunnel is owned by the BNSF railroad and there are difficulties in keeping it clean because it receives run-off and there is not any way to change the drainage on the west end. He further stated that the city crew would look again at the east end and see if drainage from there could be facilitated if some dirt work was done. Mayor Turner stated that the BNSF is putting in new lights, but that the city crew would “do whatever it takes to improve the situation.
There has been concern about four-wheelers going through the tunnel, and Hanes stated that they will put up posts at each end to prevent motorized vehicles from entering.
Area College Students Excel
The Office of Academic Affairs at Black Hills State University has released the dean’s list for the fall 201 semester. A total of 720 students maintained a grade point average of 3.5 or above while taking at least 12 credit hours to be named to the list this semester.
Ardmore: Rebecca Wasserburger, Edgemont, Mattea Schultz,
Students from the region were among those who qualified for the fall 2011 academic honors lists at Chadron State College.
Following are the students from the region received honors:
Tara Correll, Edgemont, S.D., president’s list
AAU Wrestling at Spearfish Jan 21
by Coach George Darrow
On Saturday, January 21, nine Edgemont wrestlers traveled to Spearfish for the Optimist Wrestling Tournament. There were a total of 650 wrestlers from five states in the Donald E. Young Center. This was a very big and very competitive tournament. The results were: Bantam (7-8) Blake Bullock 1st, Keaton Darrow 4th, Cade Grill 4th, and Mason Cortney 2nd. Midget (9-10) Kolton Darrow 4th, James Crenshaw 5th, and Nate Leonard 4th. At Novice (11-12) Chance Grill 1st, and Brennan Bullock 5th. These season competitions allow the boys to face the best of a very large area as they prepare for the AAU Districts, Regions, and State in March. The next tournament will be the Douglas Tournament on January 28 at the Douglas High School in Box Elder, South Dakota.
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